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đFormer OpenAI Researcher Admits to Copyright Violations
đ„Runway Introduces âAct-Oneâ to Generate Expressive Characters
đGoogle DeepMindâs AI Watermarking Tool
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đRECENT NEWS
OPENAI
đFormer OpenAI Researcher Admits to Copyright Violations
Image Source: The New York Times (NYT)/âFormer OpenAI Researcher Says the Company Broke Copyright Lawâ/Screenshot
A former OpenAI Researcher who helped collect, filter, and deploy training datasets for ChatGPT has spoken out against the company.
Key Details:
Suchir Balaji, a 25-year-old who joined OpenAI in 2020 after graduating from the University of California, Berkeley (i.e., âUC Berkeleyâ), voiced concerns about the companyâs business practices.
He believes that OpenAIâs use of copyrighted content is illegal and ChatGPT is damaging how we consume content across the Internet.
Earlier this week, Balaji published an essay detailing how copyrighted content in training datasets influences ChatGPTâs outputs and why itâs damaging the content ecosystem.
âI think itâs pretty obvious that the Market Harms from ChatGPT mostly come from it producing substitutes,â said Balaji. Market Harms are unintended side effects of market interactions.
âFor example, if we had the programming question, âWhy does 0.1 + 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004 in floating point arithmetic?â, we could ask ChatGPT instead of searching Stack Overflow.â
He explained that âthe Market Harms from this type of use can be measured in decreased website traffic to Stack Overflow.â
More importantly, ChatGPT relied on training datasets of Stack Overflowâs content to answer this programming question.
đšRead Balajiâs essay here.
đ©ș PULSE CHECK
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RUNWAY
đ„Runway Introduces âAct-Oneâ to Generate Expressive Characters
Image Source: Canvaâs AI Image Generators/Magic Media
Runway introduced âAct-One,â a new way to place your detailed facial expressions onto AI-generated characters.
Key Details:
âAct-Oneâ enables anyone to transfer their facial expressions onto AI-generated characters by leveraging their smartphoneâs camera.
Itâs able to âtranslate the performance from a single video across countless different AI-generated character designs in many different styles.â
âAct-Oneâ directly integrates with Runwayâs âGen-3 Alph,â which converts text prompts or still images into highly detailed videos with complex scenes and cinematic movements.
Why Itâs Important:
Traditionally, facial animations require extensive processes, including manual face rigging, motion capture equipment, and multiple reference footages. But now, anyone can do it!
Lionsgate recently partnered with Runway to explore the use of AI in film production. This partnership allows Runway to build AI models trained on Lionsgateâs extensive movie library, which includes The Hunger Games Series, Hacksaw Ridge, and the John Wick Saga.
đšWatch it in action here.
AI RESEARCH
đGoogle DeepMindâs Invisible Watermarking for AI-Generated Text
Image Source: Google DeepMind/âScalable Watermarking for Identifying Large Language Model (LLM) Outputsâ/Screenshot
Google DeepMind developed âSynthID-Text,â which adds invisible watermark labels to AI-generated text by encoding Tokens. Tokens are the smallest units of data used by an AI model to process and generate text. Similarly, we break down sentences into words or characters.
âSynthID-Textâ uses a Tournament Sampling approach that embeds undetectable watermarks while preserving the quality of AI-generated text.
Tournament Sampling involves three steps:
Options: The AI model generates several possible alternatives for each word in the sentence.
Tournament: These alternatives âcompeteâ against each other.
Selection: The winning alternative, determined by factors like context and grammar, is chosen as the final word.
In simple terms, the AI model alters which words it chooses to generate when creating sentences. This technique creates unique patterns that can be detected with a Cryptographic Key. A Cryptographic Key is a string of characters used within an encryption framework that alters data to make it appear random.
So, why is this important? âSynthID-Textâ provides a way to trace the source of AI-generated content, allowing for the proper attribution and credit.
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